Taking the High Tech Road

Posted on January 28, 2006 - Filed Under Audio, Tech & Science, Gadgets & Cameras | Leave a Comment

Interview with Chuck Tannert, Automotive Editor, Cargo Magazine
In the last of our interviews from the Lunch @ Piero’s radio show during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Chuck, who is Cargo’ s Automotive Editor, tells us what is new in tech on the dashboard and under the hood as our conversation strays from digital […]

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The Secret Decoder Ring Redux

Posted on January 24, 2006 - Filed Under Audio, Tech & Science, Gadgets & Cameras | Leave a Comment

Spiderman Creator Stan Lee with “Villain” & “Hero” Rings
Photo: Infinite Machines
The Secret Decoder Ring Redux
OK, this doesn’t have anything to do with travel, but let me wear my geek hat for one more day because I fondly remember opening cereal boxes from the bottom when I was a kid to get at the secret decoder […]

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Viral Radios

Posted on January 21, 2006 - Filed Under Audio, Tech & Science | Leave a Comment

Viral Radios

Will they come out of your nose when you sneeze? Are they the villians of some Michael Crichton pop-science thriller? A technology called “mesh networks” is slowly creeping into our lives. Imagine a bottom-up world where your phone, your computer, your washing machine, your socks all talk to one-another (wash me, dammit!), creating their […]

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Photo of the Week - Tennessee Valley After the Rain

Posted on January 21, 2006 - Filed Under California, Photography | Leave a Comment

Photo of the Week - Tennesee Valley, January 2006
© 2006 Russell Johnson
Northern California’s rains not only saturated the earth, they saturated the colors. Grasses lushed up to vibrant greens, yellows and reds. Walking through nature’s Tennessee Valley, just north of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge after several days in unnatural Las Vegas was a spiritual […]

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It's Not Your Great-Great Grandfather's Popular Science

Posted on January 17, 2006 - Filed Under Audio, Tech & Science, Gadgets & Cameras | Leave a Comment

It Is Not Your Great-Great Grandfather’s Popular Science
Nope, this is not your father’s Popular Science. Nor is it you grandfather’s, your great grandfathers or your great-great grandfather’s. Born in 1872, Popular Science is as old as Darwin, but as fresh in the digital age as it was when it documented the invention of the telephone, […]

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